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Sandboxes  and  Springboards  

crea%veanddigitalmarke%ng.net  springboardcourses.ie  

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Two  “digital”  modules  of  six  •  “Introduc%on  to  digital  marke%ng  prac%ce”  (how  to  do  stuff)  

•  “Personal  development  competences”  (what  you  can  do)    – Computer  lab  teaching,  expert  external  speakers  and  workshops  in  semester  1  

– Project  work  in  semester  2  with  op%onal  weekly  meet-­‐up  – Facebook  group  for  links,  references,  social  contact  – 60%  “building  block”  marks  for  weekly  exercises  during  semester  1  plus  par%cipa%on  marks  (in-­‐class  and  facebook,  for  ac%vi%es  like  website  design,  video  of  speakers,  peer  teaching)  

– 40%  marks  for  porMolio    and  project    presenta%on  in    semester  2  

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Mixed  ability,  age,  IT  skills…  •  Age  range  early  20s  to  late  50s  •  IT  skills  on  entry  ranging  from  experience  in    

content-­‐managing  websites  down  to  barely    able  to  cut  and  paste  but…  improved!    

•  General  literacy/wri%ng  skills  varied  from  professional  to  difficulty  in  composing  a  basic  business  leVer  

•  Jobs  market:  almost  all  posts  adver%sed  from  September  2011  to  May  2012  requested  1-­‐3  years  experience  –  and  Google  Adwords  –  and  many  wanted  a  2nd  language  too…  

•  Approach:  eporMolio  evidence  of  skills  star%ng  with  Blackboard  as  a  private  “sandbox”,  moving  to  a  curated,  public  eporMolio  –  from  development  to  “showcase”  –  Videos,  Google  Ads  text,  LinkedIn  Profiles,  blog  pos%ng,  Google  

analy%cs  reports,  Slideshare  presenta%ons,  facebook  business  pages  

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Video:  Margaret  Smith  •  In  a  fast-­‐moving  subject  like  digital  marke%ng  you  have  to  use  

expert  prac%%oners…  

•  Margaret  Smith  runs  the  Umnumnum  Cookery  school  and  came  in  to  talk  about  using  TwiVer  for  community  management  –  For  each  speaker  I  encouraged  a  different  student  to  video  their  talk  so  

they  would  learn  basic  filming,  edi%ng,  YouTube  upload,  tagging  etc.  and  these  type  of  ac%vi%es  formed  the  basis  for  the  porMolios.  

hVp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Ur_X3-­‐tzs      

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What  we  wanted  students  to  do…  •  Reflect  upon  their  own  learning,  performance  and  

achievement  

•  Plan  for  their  personal,  educa%onal  and  career  development,  including  extra-­‐curricular  ac%vi%es.    

•  Collect  purposefully  the  story  of  their  efforts,  progress  or  achievement.    

•  Make  sense  of  the  work  and  culminate  in  a  curated  or  edited  “story”  that  is  publicly  available  to  employers  or  clients,  reflec%ng  real  tasks  accomplished.  

•  The  level  of  guidance  and  support  decreases  during  the  PDP  process  as  personal  capabili%es  develop,  with  the  inten%on  of  the  process  becoming  self-­‐sustaining.    

•  I  do  not  think  we  achieved  the  last  point  –  but  is  it  realisEc?    

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Enterprise  model  of  PDP  October  bank  holiday:  stressing  trying  to  create  a  relevant  rubric  

to  explain  to  the  students,  I  found  Norman  Jackson’s  wiki:  

hVp://personaldevelopmentplanning.pbworks.com/w/page/2110913/FrontPage  

Hidden  away  here  and  never  officially  published…  says  Norman…  

It  %ed  in  really  well  with  work  my  former  colleague  Dr  Catherine  O’Mahony  carried  out  for  NAIRTL  in  2009  surveying  what  employers,  academics  and  students  want  as  graduate  competences.  

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•  Pitching  ideas  and  persuading  others  of  their  value  

•  Communica%ng  clearly  and  appropriately,  demonstra%ng  a  sense  of  audience  

•  Producing  content  that  is  literate,  numerate  and  coherent  in  an  appropriate  medium.  

•  Engaging  in  research  or  produc%ve  enquiry  to  find  things  out  in  order  to  do  what  is  necessary  

•  Managing  informa%on  effec%vely  in  a  range  of  media  

•  Building  partnerships  and  collabora%ons  and  networking  

•  Being  resourceful  with  exis%ng  resources  or  crea%ng  new  assets  

•  Brokering  by  bringing  people,  ideas  and  resources  together  and  inspiring  them  with  a  vision  

•  Working  with  others  to  achieve  specific  objec%ves  •  Designing,  making  and  producing  crea%ve  and  digital  media  content  

•  Selling,  or  performing  another  specialist  ac%vity  closely  related  to  crea%ve  and  digital  marke%ng.  

•  Demonstra%ng  customer  focus  and  service  orienta%on  

•  Ac%ng  in  an  ethical  manner  demonstra%ng  poli%cal,  social  and  cultural  awareness  

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Problems  •  Students  found  Blackboard  Campus  eporMolio  pack  hard,  especially  

sharing  journals  with  the  tutor  –  next  year  we  will  use  the  main  journal  feature  but  set  to  private.  Too  many  clicks,  too  confusing  to  get  to  (“add  new  entry”  buVon).  Facebook’s  changed  the  game!  

•  Excellent  proprietary    systems  (eg  Kent,    Dundee)  have  the    difficulty  that  they  are    not  likely  to  be    maintained  ater  the    student  leaves  –  so    effort  is  wasted.  

•  Timing:  other  modules  overran,  porMolios  got  squeezed  by  exam  deadlines  

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Assessment  Rubric  •  Combined  elements  from  a  number  of  the  referenced  

publica%ons  and  websites  

•  Presented  to  students  and  discussed  middle  of  term  1  •  Added  “bonus  points”  for  evidence  of  use  of  mul%media  

•  Based  around  a  “signpost  document”  for  each  student  linked  to  all  the  pieces  of  evidence  

•  PlaMorm  independent  –  students  could  choose  where  to  do  their  “showcase”  as  long  as  it  was  easily  accessible  for  prospec%ve  employers  or  clients.  But  most  used  the  course  microsites  

•  I  can  send  the  rubric  to  anyone  interested…  

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Developments  for  next  year  •  Wordpress  mul%user  student  “microsites”  under  course  

website  umbrella  (idea  from  hVp://edc.educa%on.ed.ac.uk/  )  

•  A  useful  skill  they  could  see  employers  valued  (content  management  with  Wordpress)  while  crea%ng  their  external  porMolio  

•  Microsites  will  be  in  place  from  the  start  next  year  for  those  brave  enough  to  move  on  from  the  Blackboard  sandbox  

•  More  DePTA  /  peer  porMolio  assessment  and  peer  teaching  

•  More  bonus  points  for  using  mul%media  

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What  did  I  learn?    •  Most  only  did  what  the  assessment  demanded  

•  Those  with  poor  IT  and  wri%ng  skills  found  it  harder:    course  entry  requirements  require  revision.  

•  They  nearly  got  more  out  of  crea%ng  good  about.me  pages  that  linked  their  social  media  presences  than  the  eporMolio  

•  Rewri%ng  and  peer-­‐reviewing  their  cvs,  crea%ng  LinkedIn  profiles  and  visualise.me  graphic  resumes,  all  worked  well.  

•  Without  the  first-­‐week  Skype  talk  from  industry    recruiter  Roseanne  Smith,  the  eporMolio  exercise    would  have  been  irrelevant  to  the  students.  

•  The  course  “worked”  overall  –  8  in  jobs  (one    emigrants),  2  star%ng  businesses,  3  interning  out  of  a  cohort  of  17  (4  dropouts)  

•  EporMolio  marking  is  %me-­‐consuming  –  have  a  clear  rubric.      

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Denis  O’Mahoney  example  

If  Denis  doesn’t  get  a  good  job  out  of  this  course  in  the  end,  I’ll  eat  my  hat…  Applica%ons  for  this,  (and  5  other  digital  marke%ng  courses  from  other  ins%tu%ons),  now  being  taken  on  the  Springboard  website…  

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References  Arter  JA,  Spandel  V,  1992.  NCME  Instruc%onal  Module:  Using  PorMolios  of  Student  Work  in  Instruc%on  and  

Assessment.  Available  from:  www.ncme.org/pubs/items/18.pdf    

Eraut  M.  (2009).  Learning  to  be  Professional  through  Higher  Educa%on.  Available  at:  hVp://learningtobeprofessional.pbworks.com/w/page/15914947/FrontPage    

Gordon  J,  “Assessing  students’  personal  and  professional  development  using  porMolios  and  interviews”,  2003.  Medical  Educa%on  volume  37,  pp335-­‐340  Blackwell  Publishing  Ltd.  

Jackson  N,  Ward  R.  “A  fresh  perspec%ve  on  progress  files—a  way  of  represen%ng  complex  learning  and  achievement  in  higher  educa%on”  in  Assessment  and  Evalua%on  in  Higher  Educa%on,  Volume  29,  No.  4  August  2004.  Available  from:  hVp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/resources/resourcedatabase/id361_fresh_perspec%ve_on_progress_files.pdf  

O’Mahony  C,  2009.  Inves%ga%ng  graduate  competences,  NAIRTL.  Available  at  hVp://www.nairtl.ie  Personal  development  planning:  guidance  for  ins%tu%onal  policy  and  prac%ce  in  higher  educa%on,  2009,  The  Quality  

Assurance  Agency  for  Higher  Educa%on,  Scotland.  Available  at  hVp://www.qaa.ac.uk    

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Strivens  J.  et  al,  2009.  The  Role  of  e-­‐PorMolios  in  Forma%ve  and  Summa%ve  Assessment:    Report  of  the  JISC-­‐funded  Study.  Centre  for  Recording  Achievement.  Available  from:  hVp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningcapital/studyontheroleofeporMolios.aspx#downloads    

University  of  Plymouth  Study  Guide  Number  11  “Reflec%on”.  Available  from  hVp://www.plymouth.ac.uk/learn.    Zimmerman  B.  J.  (2000).  AVaining  self-­‐regula%on:  A  social  cogni%ve  perspec%ve.  In  M.Boekaerts,  P.  R.  Pintrich,  &  M.  

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Websites  hVp://www.recordingachievement.org/higher-­‐educa%on/depta-­‐project.html  hVp://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-­‐porMolios/emerging-­‐lessons  

hVp://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-­‐porMolios-­‐7-­‐reasons-­‐why-­‐i-­‐dont-­‐want.html          

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